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Post by floridagrl on Sept 28, 2014 13:40:35 GMT -5
The Queen sold more then 58k in presales alone! She'll do this time, as well!
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Post by xxzion72xx on Sept 28, 2014 13:43:48 GMT -5
She's gonna pull out all the stops this time too... Why not?..in this day an age... Most of your album sales for any artist today come in the first few weeks.. So why not a splashy debut....like I said.. I think she's gonna use the Grammys in some kind of capacity to launch the album.
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Post by floridagrl on Sept 28, 2014 19:10:00 GMT -5
Watch As Marie Osmond Is Transformed Into Madonna, Marilyn And Elizabeth TaylorDuring her ’70s heyday, entertainer Marie Osmond was a paragon of wholesomeness while singing a string of popular pop songs, often with her teen idol brother Donny. Therefore, it’s little surprise she’s ready to demonstrate her sex appeal in her popular Las Vegas production The Donny and Marie Show. For “Showstopper” a new number in the show at the Flamingo Hotel, Marie pays homage to several other icons with a decidedly more sensual reputation. The Mormon-raised Marie, who gets eternal props for being such a supportive mother to lesbian daughter Jessica, pays tribute to 24 other famous ladies, including “Vogue”-era Madonna, sultry sex symbol Marilyn Monroe and that eternal vixen Elizabeth Taylor. Be amazed at Osmond’s transformation below. www.queerty.com/watch-as-marie-osmond-is-transformed-into-madonna-marilyn-and-elizabeth-taylor-20140926
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Post by HolidayGuy on Sept 29, 2014 7:55:15 GMT -5
Marie doesn't look like a dead ringer or anything for the first few, but I also never would have known it was Marie Osmond.
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Post by August on Sept 29, 2014 8:07:14 GMT -5
She does a pretty good Marilyn..but she looks like a wax figure as Madonna
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Post by floridagrl on Sept 29, 2014 8:33:41 GMT -5
^^ Yeah, they did a great job with the make up. Pop Icons video of the week: "'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mister Right!" "Material Girl" is a song performed by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released on November 30, 1984, by Sire Records, as the second single from her second album Like a Virgin. According to her, the song was provocative, hence she was attracted to it. "Material Girl" consists of synth arrangements with a robotic voice repeating the hook. The lyrics identify with materialism, with Madonna asking for a rich and affluent life, rather than romance and relationships. Contemporary critics have frequently identified "Material Girl" along with "Like a Virgin" as the songs that established Madonna as an icon. "Material Girl" was a commercial success, reaching the top-five in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Japan and United Kingdom. It reached the number two position on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, becoming her third top-five single there. The music video was a mimicry of Marilyn Monroe's performance of the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" from the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The mimicked scenes are interspersed with scenes of a Hollywood director trying to win the heart of an actress, played by Madonna herself. Discovering that, contrary to her song, the young woman was not impressed by money and expensive gifts, he pretended to be penniless and succeeded in taking her out on a date. She has performed the song in four of her world tours, most of them being mimicry of the song and the video. "Material Girl" has been covered by a number of artists, including Britney Spears, The Chipettes and Hilary and Haylie Duff. It has appeared in films like Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). Madonna has often remarked that she regrets recording "Material Girl" as the name became a pseudonym for her in mainstream media. The song has been labeled an empowering influence for women, and was the subject of debates. www.facebook.com/PopIconsWorld
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Post by floridagrl on Sept 29, 2014 10:47:10 GMT -5
The Guinness Book of World Records have updated their official site. They did not use that photo of Madonna that they used on the Twitter notification. FOR THE RECORD WHO: MADONNA CICCONE WHAT: BEST-SELLING FEMALE RECORDING ARTIST WHERE: UNITED STATES Madonna (USA, b. Madonna Ciccone) has sold more than 300 million albums in her career since debuting with her self-titled release in 1983. As of October 2013, Madonna had sold an estimated 305,600,000 albums. Her best-sellers are The Immaculate Collection (1990, 30 million copies sold) and True Blue (1986, 25 million copies sold). Although precise sales figures are difficult to obtain and are often disputed, it is acknowledged that only The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson have conclusively sold more albums worldwide than Madonna. Among female artists, Mariah Carey (USA), Celine Dion (Canada) and Whitney Houston (USA, 1963-2012) all have total worldwide album sales estimated at 200 million units. In addition to her phenomenal album sales, Madonna's earnings of $125 m (£82 m) for the period from June 2012 to June 2013 were the highest annual earnings ever for a female pop star, dwarfing those of previous record holder Celine Dion, whose earnings amounted to $56 m ($80 m, or £49 m, today) in 1998. www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/8000/best-selling-female-recording-artist
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Post by xxzion72xx on Sept 29, 2014 12:39:57 GMT -5
Can I get a witness!!!... Thank God for Guinness .. now maybe Mariah's PR team will stop with embarrassing themselves with false claims... That she's only 2nd best baby!!!.....And on a side note... I'm glad they didn't use the HC album shot.. I still hate it as of today... She should have used the photo shoot of her in that boxing ring that year... It would have made for a great album cover.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Sept 29, 2014 17:30:43 GMT -5
It still should be 300 million+ records, but whatevs. :)
xxzion- regardless of what's reported, there always will be others claiming someone else is the best-selling, top-selling, etc. No need for the snarkiness, though. :)
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Sept 29, 2014 19:35:25 GMT -5
What Mariah SHOULD say is that she is the biggest selling female artist "since her debut." That would be correct.
But not of all time.
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Post by floridagrl on Sept 29, 2014 21:55:41 GMT -5
Mariah has sold the most in the U.S.A soundscan era, period. Not worldwide, not of all time. GWR acknowledges her 200 mil record sales. That is no small feat.
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Post by floridagrl on Oct 1, 2014 18:43:36 GMT -5
"Unapologeticbitches do it better! #sorrynotsorry" -Madonna
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 3, 2014 7:48:23 GMT -5
:)
From DrownedMadonna: Exclusive details on Madonna Rebel Heart We are happy to give you some exciting details on Rebel Heart, a song that Madonna love so much and will be definitively included in her forthcoming album. After all, she has been using the #rebelheart hashtag so much.
Rebel Heart is a very sincere and self-critical song, and every fan can relate to its great lyrics. If in Veni Vidi Vici Madonna talks about her career, in Rebel Heart she talks about her life… in a comprehensive way. Rebel Heart is absolutely one of the best tracks from her upcoming album, with its chorus as catchy as the chorus of La Isla Bonita. Even though it is not our favourite new track, Rebel Heart definitely has to be a single. In Rebel Heart Madonna sings what it feels like to be not like the others – “thought I belonged to a different tribe [...] tried to fit in, but it wasn’t me” she sings – and take “the road less traveled by.” But she proudly sings that “through the darkness somehow I survived.” The song starts with Madonna confessing that she lived her life like a masochist, with her father saying “Told you so, told you so. Why can’t you be like the other girls?” I’ve spent some time as a narcissist / Hearing the others say “Look at you, look at you!” / Trying to be so provocative / I said “Oh yeah, that was me!” / All of the things I did, just to be seen. Rebel Heart is one of the songs that have changed the most. It started as a country folk track, then it was dance with a more evident Avicii‘s touch, and then it became a more mid-tempo pop song with a fresh and happy sound. Like most of the songs that Madonna co-wrote with Avicii, it is like Avicii adapted to Madonna, not the other way around. Expect a lot of acoust guitars, but not as prominent as in the other tracks recorded with Avicii. As we at DrownedMadonna.com already told you, Madonna‘s new album will be released in 2015, with Madonna wanting no rush and a deadline, so that she can have all the creative freedom to bring us something special. Keep in mind that there is not a final tracklist yet. Stay tuned…
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Post by kmbgs on Oct 3, 2014 9:36:01 GMT -5
:) From DrownedMadonna: Exclusive details on Madonna Rebel Heart We are happy to give you some exciting details on Rebel Heart, a song that Madonna love so much and will be definitively included in her forthcoming album. After all, she has been using the #rebelheart hashtag so much. Rebel Heart is a very sincere and self-critical song, and every fan can relate to its great lyrics. If in Veni Vidi Vici Madonna talks about her career, in Rebel Heart she talks about her life… in a comprehensive way. Rebel Heart is absolutely one of the best tracks from her upcoming album, with its chorus as catchy as the chorus of La Isla Bonita. Even though it is not our favourite new track, Rebel Heart definitely has to be a single. In Rebel Heart Madonna sings what it feels like to be not like the others – “thought I belonged to a different tribe [...] tried to fit in, but it wasn’t me” she sings – and take “the road less traveled by.” But she proudly sings that “through the darkness somehow I survived.” The song starts with Madonna confessing that she lived her life like a masochist, with her father saying “Told you so, told you so. Why can’t you be like the other girls?” I’ve spent some time as a narcissist / Hearing the others say “Look at you, look at you!” / Trying to be so provocative / I said “Oh yeah, that was me!” / All of the things I did, just to be seen. Rebel Heart is one of the songs that have changed the most. It started as a country folk track, then it was dance with a more evident Avicii‘s touch, and then it became a more mid-tempo pop song with a fresh and happy sound. Like most of the songs that Madonna co-wrote with Avicii, it is like Avicii adapted to Madonna, not the other way around. Expect a lot of acoust guitars, but not as prominent as in the other tracks recorded with Avicii. As we at DrownedMadonna.com already told you, Madonna‘s new album will be released in 2015, with Madonna wanting no rush and a deadline, so that she can have all the creative freedom to bring us something special. Keep in mind that there is not a final tracklist yet. Stay tuned… Literally dying at the La Isla Bonita reference...UCHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Post by HolidayGuy on Oct 3, 2014 10:41:40 GMT -5
Drowned Madonna's posts are as enlightening as ever, it looks.
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Post by floridagrl on Oct 3, 2014 16:34:36 GMT -5
It is so boring right now. Wish we would hear something!
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Oct 3, 2014 16:56:00 GMT -5
I remember when Larry King interviewed her when she was 40 and he asked her what she would be doing at 50.
"Not making videos!"
lol, now she's 56 and still going. I wonder what the first single will be? I'd rather have the lead single entitled "Messiah" than "Unapologetic Bitch". Unless, of course, We R Superstars turns out to be UB, which I still think it is. I think at that time, during that Billboard snippet, and the Katy Perry photoshoot, everything was lined up for a late summer release. But something happened. Avicii was the main producer then, and now Diplo seems to be. I bet she switched directions and put everything on hold.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 3, 2014 17:47:18 GMT -5
It is so boring right now. Wish we would hear something! The quiet makes me think that a suprise something,- single or album may be closer than we think. All these Instagram teas and then quiet. Avici has been sick so maybe Diplo took over the mixing and final stages or M is just wanting to make sure everything is ready and perfect. Any event, we know something monumental is near.
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Post by xxzion72xx on Oct 3, 2014 22:37:54 GMT -5
If nothing happens by Xmas ... Then I'd say we have wait till early feb... Because we all know she goes away too the Swiss alps for the holidays...and stays there for several weeks.... These past few years she's be all about family first.
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Post by cause_for_celebration on Oct 4, 2014 11:33:22 GMT -5
Highly doubt we're getting anything this year. :( I gave up hope lol
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Oct 4, 2014 18:18:11 GMT -5
They said weeks ago that the album would be out in 2015.
We all know how it goes now.
Spring album/summer tour
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Post by HolidayGuy on Oct 5, 2014 7:20:14 GMT -5
Or, later-spring start for the tour- three of the last four have started in May (and DW in earlier June).
It makes sense for the album to be released around March- if it is, hopefully this one will fit in more with March-released albums Like a Prayer and Ray of Light rather than MDNA.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2014 17:33:02 GMT -5
yay! just pre-ordered desperately seeking susan blu ray on amazon :) can't wait to see the hottest 26 year old of all time in high resolution!
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Post by floridagrl on Oct 6, 2014 6:22:49 GMT -5
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions #livingforlove" -Madonna Looks like The Queen posted fan-mad art. Love it!
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Oct 6, 2014 13:28:24 GMT -5
^. Always loved that line from 4 Minutes.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Oct 6, 2014 17:14:46 GMT -5
Makes sense to quote the Bible in a track about saving the world. :) I'd be surprised if she ever performs "4 Minutes" again, though- and I wouldn't mind.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Oct 6, 2014 18:10:31 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/articles/news/6274138/madonna-bedtime-stories-20-babyface-donna-de-lory-retrospectiveMadonna's 'Bedtime Stories' Turns 20: Babyface & Donna De Lory Look BackBy Joe Lynch | October 06, 2014 Twenty years ago this month, Madonna released her sixth studio album, Bedtime Stories, a classic that came out at a strange crossroads in her career. While Madonna certainly didn't lack for fame in 1994, the button-pushing Erotica album had soured many critics and fans. For the first time in a decade of superstardom, people weren't shocked by her antics anymore -- even worse, they often seemed exhausted by her. Artistically speaking, she'd spent the last four years challenging and subverting America's sexual puritanism. But after releasing an entire book called Sex featuring nude pictures of herself and other celebrities, there didn't seem to be anywhere else to go in that realm. It didn't help that she'd detonated 14 F-bombs on a March 1994 episode of The Late Show With David Letterman, an infamous appearance that racked up FCC complaints and distanced her from Middle America. Evita was two years away and the overt sexuality of Erotica was growing stale -- so when Bedtime Stories hit, Madonna's career was at a strange point. To that end, Bedtime Stories is lyrically and musically a much warmer album. She sacrifices some bawdy entendres (compare Erotica's "Where Life Begins" to Bedtime's "Inside of Me") and focuses on autobiographical matter. Instead of Erotica's chilly, pounding dance pop, Bedtime puts Madonna in softer sonic territory. There's the singer-songwriter-y "Secret," the avant pop of "Bedtime Story" (co-written by Bjork), the new jack swing jam "I'd Rather Be Your Lover" (featuring Meshell Ndegeocello rapping), the Herbie Hancock-sampling ballad "Sanctuary" and the lush, orchestral R&B of "Take a Bow." But softer sounds didn't necessarily mean muted lyrics. "Human Nature" finds Madonna taking on her critics more directly than ever with a logical, defiant attack on slut-shaming. And while album opener "Survival" is a cozy R&B-pop song, it was similarly unrepentant in attitude. The inviting R&B sound of Bedtime Stories is due in part to co-producer Dallas Austin, who longtime Madonna backup singer Donna de Lory describes as "part of her tribe at that time." Also on board were co-producers Nellee Hooper, Dave "Jam" Hall (hot off Mary J. Blige's debut, What's the 411?) and, of course, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. While Edmonds had recently worked with TLC and Toni Braxton, he tells Billboard it was one of his own hits that brought him to Madonna's attention. "Madonna was a fan of a song I did, 'When Can I See You.' Because of that, she was interested in working with me," Edmonds recalls. "She came to me for lush ballads, so that's where we went." Babyface would collaborate with Madonna on three songs -- two of which, "Forbidden Love" and "Take a Bow," ended up on the album. Although the latter became Madonna's long-running No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Edmonds says he wasn't gunning for chart-toppers when they met. "I wasn't so much thinking about the charts," Edmonds recalls. "I think I was more in awe of the fact that I was working with Madonna. It was initially surreal, but then you get to know the person a little bit, and you calm down and then it's just work. And work is fun." When Edmonds played Madonna the bare bones of a song that would become "Take a Bow," she immediately took to it. "It was just a beat and the chords. From there we collaborated and built it up," he says. "I was living in Beverly Hills and I created a little studio in my house, so she came over there to write." As for "Forbidden Love," Edmonds recalls that track came together with similar speed. "She heard the basic track and it all started coming out, melodies and everything... It was a much easier process than I thought it would be." Donna De Lory, however, wasn't surprised at how easily Bedtime Stories came together when she and fellow backup vocalist Niki Haris were called in to provide harmonies on "Survival," co-written by Austin. At that point, she'd been performing with Madonna for seven years. "The minute you walked in [the studio], she was giving you the lyric sheet," De Lory tells Billboard. "That was the atmosphere -- we're not here to just hang out. It's fun, but we're here to work and get this done." And what Madonna sets out to do, Madonna invariably succeeds at. De Lory recalls the sessions for "Survival" took just a "couple of hours" and there were no retakes. Similar to Babyface, De Lory describes working with Madonna as a creative partnership, even if she was the one setting the tone. "Once she got her ideas out, she was open to your ideas. You didn't want to go in with her and right off the bat say, 'Well, I hear this,' because she was so specific and articulate. She already had the sound in her head. But after she'd spoken, we'd put our two cents in. We always had ideas, like, 'Can we answer this line with an extra "survival" [in the background]?'" The result of that session is the perfect opener to the album -- a lush, beguiling anthem to resilience and statement of purpose. "I'll never be an angel, I'll never be a saint it's true/ I'm too busy surviving, whether it's heaven or hell/ I'm gonna be living to tell," Madonna sings, nodding to her critics while simultaneously brushing them off. Speaking of critics, Bedtime Stories received very positive reviews, especially compared to her two previous albums, the divisive Erotica and her Dick Tracy companion I'm Breathless. It was similarly successful on the charts, debuting at a respectable No. 3 slot on the Billboard 200. The first single, "Secret," also peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. (FYI, Madonna teased "Secret" in an audio message available exclusively online prior to its release -- a prescient publicity move for an era where less than 15 percent of adults had Internet access.) But it was the second single from Bedtime, the Babyface-produced "Take a Bow," that became its biggest hit. Topping the Hot 100 for seven weeks, it became Madonna's 11th No. 1 hit and is still her longest-running No. 1 on the Hot 100. Despite the unqualified success of "Take a Bow," Bedtime's next two singles -- the Bjork-penned "Bedtime Story" and "Human Nature" -- stalled, becoming her first singles in a decade to not crack the Hot 100's top 40. While De Lory recalls that Madonna was directing her energy back toward acting at that point anyway, the tepid performance of those singles could partly explain why Madonna didn't tour behind the album. She did, however, perform "Take a Bow" with Babyface at the American Music Awards in 1995, an experience he recalls as terrifying. "I was nervous as hell. But you couldn't actually see my legs shaking under the suit," Edmonds says. "When we finished, she told me she had never been that nervous before. That was crazy to me -- I was thinking, 'You're Madonna, you're on stage all the time!'" These days, Madonna is readying a new album for a presumed 2015 release and Edmonds is hot off producing an album for another unstoppable icon: Barbra Streisand. Looking back on Bedtime Stories 20 years later, he says the whole experience seems surreal. "Today when I think about it, it's hard to believe I even did that with Madonna," Edmonds says. "It's always nice to be part of an album that's a classic -- but you never know when you're a part of it at the time. Only time can tell." As for De Lory, she stopped performing with Madonna in 2007. Today, she's following her own muse, performing and crafting world-music-influenced electronic pop on albums like her most recent, The Unchanging. Recalling her time with Madonna, she's still in awe of the pop icon's total immersion in the recording process. "I was constantly amazed at her ability to focus in on the intonation and rhythm of our vocal parts," De Lory says. "When you worked with her, you had to be so on. She was very present in the moment -- she knew what she wanted, she got what she wanted, and then she was moving on."
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Post by HolidayGuy on Oct 6, 2014 19:06:55 GMT -5
Nice of Billboard to reflect on the BS album.- thanks for posting. Though I don't think the performance of the third and fourth singles influenced her not touring. "Bedtime Story" and "Human Nature"- especially BS- were not prime for mass radio consumption.
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Post by floridagrl on Oct 6, 2014 20:37:56 GMT -5
yay! just pre-ordered desperately seeking susan blu ray on amazon :) can't wait to see the hottest 26 year old of all time in high resolution! Oh yeah. Thanks for the reminder. I totally forgot about this. Egads!!
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